Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk, a Nigerian Afropop singer, was the subject of another revelation made by Yvonne Nelson in her book “I Am Not Yvonne Nelson.”
Yvonne described her relationship with the singer as a dreamy one, complete with breakfast in bed and all the comforts. She added that she knew her love for the singer was unbreakable because he had her initials, YN, permanently inked on his wrist.
“We had a decent relationship. breakfast in bed and all the niceties of a dream relationship one could think of. I had the assurance that he was someone I could be with forever.
He tattooed my initials, YN, on his wrist, and I thought that was a big deal. If he wasn’t serious about he wouldn’t do that. In his hit song, “Ur Waist”, he mentioned how he lusted over me”.
However, things started to go south between them when Yvonne Nelson began getting calls from an enigmatic figure each time she left Iyanya’s house, informing her that another actress would drop by and occasionally spend the night.
She revealed in her autobiography that the actress in question was Tonto Dikeh, who was mentioned in Iyanya’s song “Ur Waist.”
“One can therefore imagine my shock when I returned to Ghana after one of my visits to Nigeria and someone called me from his house.
The caller said anytime I left Iyanya’s place, another actress came over to him and sometimes slept over.
The person felt strongly that there was something going on between them and thought I should know. That actress turned out to be Tonto Dikeh of Nigeria, one of the female celebrities Iyanya named in his “Ur Waist” song”
Tonto Dikeh responded to Yvonne Nelson on Twitter after she vented her frustrations and disappointment over the failed relationship, suggesting that people change, including their feelings, and advising Yvonne to move on.
“When I was convinced about the authenticity of the information I received, I was heartbroken. I took to Twitter to rant and vent. Tonto Dike responded on Twitter, saying people changed and so did feelings, sol should move on”.
Iyanya and some of his female crew members were involved in additional incidents that were revealed in Yvonne’s memoir, supporting her theory that what happened between him and Tonto Dikeh was not an isolated incident.
“I later heard more stories about what Iyanya did with some of his female crew members. It convinced me that what happened between him and Tonto Dike wasn’t an isolated incident.
It was a pattern, his way of life. I knew I eventually would have left even if Tonto Dikeh hadn’t come into the picture. I did not see the need to keep fighting her for a man I had lost, especially when I knew her fate was not going to be different from mine.”
The much-discussed relationship between Kukere master Iyanya and Ghanaian actress Yvonne Nelson, which started in July 2012 and was evident at several events, has come to an end in 2015.
